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Originally Posted by transplant99
Such nonsense.
He is on pace for 18 points. Full stop.
Sure he has been physical and has been decent as a PK guy, but beyond that he is (and has for2+ years now) sucked horribly. I mean Stone is on pace to outscore him.....think about that!
Not everything is about points, and i am the first to recognize that, but this guy is getting more icetime than Michael Frolik and is doing almost nothing with it.
Pointing this out does not make people "haters", it makes them realists.
ANY Flames fan wants Bennett to do well but the fact is, he just is not providing anything near what he should be.
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Couldn't disagree more.
Sam Bennett now leads the Flames in individual scoring chances. He has 22 through 17 games this season. The next two guys on the list are Lindholm and Gaudreau who each have 18.
When it comes to scoring chances adjusted to ice time he has 6.75/hour, the top line guys are averaging closer to 4 per hour.
Is he finishing? No
Will he ever be a guy that finishes? Maybe not.
But to say he sucks when he's generating chances is foolish. Clearly Bill Peters sees the same or he wouldn't have moved Bennett from a 7 minute per night fourth liner to a third line staple, and then last night in an effort to tie the game he elevated Bennett to the second line with Backlund and Tkachuk.
Look past the counting stats and ask yourself if you're a coach ... do you like players that generate scoring chances over players that don't?
Should be a pretty easy answer.